Live Event Gallery
A private, responsive web gallery where every photo and video taken by your guests pools together in real time, preserved in full camera resolution with zero social media compression.
What is the live gallery?
When an event ends, hosts usually spend weeks texting friends and family: “Send me your photos!” The photos that eventually arrive are scattered across group chats, compressed into tiny files by WhatsApp or messaging apps, or sent via expiring cloud links.
The Candid Photos gallery solves this by giving your event a single, shared digital home. It is an editorial web gallery where guests can view photos taken by other tables, see candid moments they missed during the cocktail hour, and relive the celebration while it is still happening.
There is no app to download, no account required, and no public social feed where strangers can browse your family memories.
How it works for your guests
1. Scan to open
Guests scan a table QR code or tap a shared link. The gallery opens immediately in their mobile browser on Safari, Chrome, or any standard mobile browser.
2. Live streaming updates
As other guests upload photos and clips throughout the event, the gallery updates dynamically. Guests can pull to refresh or simply watch new moments appear at the top of the feed.
3. Easy multi-photo uploads
Guests can tap the upload button, select up to 20 photos or videos from their phone library at once, and upload in seconds. If venue Wi-Fi is patchy, our chunked upload engine automatically handles retries without failing.
4. Full-screen viewing
Tapping any photo opens a full-screen viewer where guests can swipe through moments, see who captured the photo, and read any message attached to it.
How full-resolution preservation works
Most photo-sharing tools reduce image dimensions and apply aggressive compression to save cloud storage costs. This ruins photos when you later try to zoom in, print them in a wedding album, or display them on large screens.
Dual-pipeline storage
When a guest uploads a 48-megapixel phone photo, Candid Photos stores the original binary file untouched in private cloud storage. We separately generate lightweight WebP display proxies so browsing on mobile is fast and smooth without burning guest mobile data.
EXIF metadata preserved
The original capture time, camera model, lens settings, and orientation remain preserved. When you download your files, photos can be sorted chronologically to reconstruct the entire timeline of your day.
Host curation and one-click export
Hide unwanted or duplicate photos
If a guest accidentally uploads a blurry test photo or an accidental screenshot, you can hide it with one tap from your host dashboard. It disappears from the gallery immediately without the guest ever knowing.
Pin featured moments
Pin your favorite shots (like the first kiss, the cake cutting, or special family portraits) to the top of the gallery so every guest sees them first.
Complete ZIP archive download
You never have to save photos one by one. Tap “Download Archive” in your dashboard to receive a structured ZIP file containing every high-resolution photo, video clip, and guestbook message, organized and ready to back up or send to your photo album printer.